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I have 3 questions about SGP41:

1. Is SGP41 (the one in your website) something that I can just insert into the PCB like how we could connect a computer case fan into the motherboard header or will it need soldering? Also, I saw in your build instructions that 2 tiny resistors have to be removed for SGP30 sensor. Is that the case with SGP41 as well?

2. Do you sell the "PRO Pre-soldered" kit or any other products/devices that come with SGP41 prebuilt? If not, is there an option to buy the "PRO Pre-soldered" one with SGP41?

3. Will the software automatically start reading SGP41 values or are any changes needed on software side?

Some news related to scam call center arrests:

Oct 4 2022:

On inputs from FBI and Interpol, CBI, police forces search 105 locations to combat cyber crime: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cbi-operation-target...

31 Aug 2022:

Fake call centre busted in Gurugram, six held for cheating foreign citizens: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/fake-call-centre-b...

04 Aug 2022:

Fake call centre: Cyber cell contacts FBI, CBI & ED: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/fake-call-...

30 Dec 2020:

India's CBI helped US sleuths shut down a call centre scam that impersonated Microsoft at times: https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/us-india-c...

17 Oct 2020:

Call centre fraud: US, CBI bust call centres defrauding elderly Americans: https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/call-centre-frau...

I don't believe this at all. I see the exact opposite happening in my Indian company. They are encouraging women leaders so much. I am right now working with one who climbed 2 grades in 2-3 years (which normally would take several years), and she has an all female team now (which is discriminatory by the way). Her male Indian bosses encourage and support her so much, while my male managers treat me (a male) like shit most of the time.

Indian companies are required to give paid maternity leave of 26 weeks by the way.

https://www.startuphrtoolkit.com/maternity-leave-in-india/

Infosys stopped hiring Indians in US at least 2-3 years ago, may be before President Trump moved out. Al their job ads (in Indeed) would have this line: "U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time."

Example: https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b8ca8d3db6e11c9e

Majority of those who need visa sponsorship are Indians & Chinese.

And this is not just Infosys. I have seen the same wording in job ads of many American companies.

My friend who worked in Infosys told me that they were so desperate to hire Americans that they conducted a job fair and if selected, they would give offer letter on the same day.

I am pretty sure Infosys did this because of all the negative media about them preferring to hire Indians in US causing Americans to loose jobs.

> They ghosted women systematically which was a nightmare for our project manager.

What do you mean by this? That they refuse to work with women based on their gender?

"India has more women STEM grads than US, UK or France". And I see way way more women employees in software companies in India compared to US.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-more-wom...

Some one posted this in /r/developersindia today: https://old.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/vrtk3z/we_...

Thanks for the links. I am not trying to refute what you said above. But I don’t want anyone to think that I am spreading misinformation here. So I checked the Netflix Downfall documentary again. It says at 34:30 that the pilots did what Boeing instructed them to do.

The documentary talks about the Ethiopian crash from 32:00 onwards. The below excerpt is from 34:30 onwards. Name of the person talking is in '[]' brackets.

[Pasztor] Soon after the hearings got underway, we managed to get more information about what actually happened in the cockpit of the Ethiopian aircraft. We got the information from the FAA within hours after they received it from the Ethiopian investigators. It was very late at night, and we tried to put together the most comprehensive story we could. When it came out, this was the first story that revealed that the crew, in fact, realized that MCAS had kicked off. And they did what Boeing instructed them to do.

[Tajer] When the MCAS kicks in, it runs for ten seconds and pushes the airplane very powerfully nose-down. Runs for ten, off for five. Runs for ten, off for five.

[Cox] They’ve got this cacophony of stick shaker, master cautions, airspeed disagree, altitude disagree. All of these…these warnings going off. The captain, who’s flying the airplane, is trying to figure out what’s gone wrong.

[Tajer] The first officer called out, “Stab trim cutout switches, Captain.” I think he said it twice. He did what Boeing said. He turned off the MCAS system. I remember reading that, and I said, “Man, the kid got it right. The kid got it right”.

[Cox] The problem now is that the airplane is going too fast. And because of the force on the tail itself, they cannot manually trim the airplane to be able to recover.

When I mentioned AirBus, I was thinking of this - that the Max crash is clearly due to corporate greed. I am not aware of any such scenario with AirBus. Not only that, according to the Netflix documentary, Boeing was trying to blame the pilots of the Indonesian and Ethiopian airlines initially. Then in turns out that the Indonesian pilot was an Indian who was trained in US, and the Ethiopian pilots followed Boeing's guidelines on MCAS failure properly.

I am looking at these blames on outsourcing from that perspective - that Boeing is trying to blame others to hide their greed.

Common! This gets brought up all the time when the topic is Boeing. Max's issue had nothing to do with the outsourced software. Netflix has a documentary called 'Downfall' which talks about what all went wrong. AirBus also outsources, they haven't crashed right?

> To him, it is perhaps closer to humiliating and debilitating

Exactly. Considering what I went through already, I can't even think of spending the next couple of years like that hoping I will get GC one day. If I go through again even half of what I went through already, the stress alone will kill me soon. I already lost all my memory - I don't remember anything about my past, no memory of my childhood, parents, school. What I went through probably shortened my life by 10 years. And I am worried if I will get dementia because of that.

Its really disappointing that people are using his gender and caste as excuses for dismissing whatever he went through.

How often will one have to deal with Indian bureaucracy? Its very rare. Being on the GC backlog means I always have to deal with the bureaucracy and at the mercy of my employer. It simply takes away any hope I have, I will always be on the h1b leash. Considering what I went through the last couple of years, I simply don't have the courage to deal with h1b any more. If I could find a job in India, I will pack up this instant.

> my partner said she will never bring a girl child up in india

My wife also has a similar opinion - that being a woman in India is very hard. Yet, she wants to go back to India more than me.

I know with 100% certainty that unless I go fight for something like ISIS, India will take me back without any problems. No one else will do that. That's where the country of birth becomes important for me.

I am from Trivandrum, now in US and really badly want to pack up and leave (because of management issues). Do you have any tips on finding a job in Trivandrum while still being in US? Do people with about 15 years experience in IT have any hope of finding jobs there?

> Americans feel that the country is full and will increasingly be enforcing the letter of the law.

I used to think the same, that the Americans don't really want us. But when the corona pandemic related lockdowns happened, and US banned people from India, US still allowed Indian college students. So there must be some need. These students are not coming to US for education, they are coming here to work, and get green card and become a citizen.

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2021/05/03/us-rest...

> For a long time, d###s treated the H1-B system as a permanent immigration visa...D###s should internalize that.

And that is why I think posts like this are important. So that Indians who are considering moving to US know the ground reality, and make informed decisions rather than regret it later in life.

"Immigrants" is still a humane term. H1Bs are called as "temporary alien workers".

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/immigration/h1b

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/laws-and-regulations/laws/i...

> In the beginning when I was young I used to think "yes". But I've realized lately that it's a big "no".

Exactly my thoughts. The poor quality air or the mad traffic in Indian cities feels a lot better than the insane stress the visa situations put me through the last few years.

pfsense supports VLANs. Lawrence Systems in YouTube covers pfsense a lot. This is one video where they talk about setting up VLAN in pfsense: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2w1Ywt081o

On the wifi side, TPLink EAP245 access point allows you to configure multiple SSIDs, each with separate VLANs so that you can have one set of devices connect to one SSID, another group of devices to another SSID and so on. pfsense firewall rules can be configured to prevent the devices on separate VLANs from seeing each other. You can also block internet to access for one VLAN, and have the wireless IP cameras connect to it.

[I may be wrong. Hence deleting.]

> You don’t believe there’s a distinction to be made for how the protesters were being treated and what prompted the remarks?

From https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/news-why-did-justin-trudea...

"Trudeau expressed concern about the Indian security forces' attitude toward these peasant protesters and said that his government has always been a supporter of peaceful protests."

"Sikh vote bank politics matters in Canada. Sikh voters matter to Trudeau's Liberal Party, Conservative Party, and Jagmeet Singh's New Democratic Party. The Sikh population here is close to five lakhs. Sikh separatism or Khalistan has been an essential issue in the relations between India and Canada."

From https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/...

"Sikh, numbering less than half a million, form the largest ethnic group among Indian-origin Canadians. All four of Trudeau’s Indian-origin ministers are Sikh, and Trudeau has publicly boasted how he has more Sikh ministers than Modi. Amarinder Singh, chief minister of the Sikh-dominated state of Punjab and himself a Sikh, has publicly accused Trudeau’s ministers of having sympathies with Canadian Sikh extremists who would like to see Indian Punjab separated from India into the state of Khalistan. Last year, Singh had refused to meet Trudeau’s defense minister, Harjit Singh Sajjan. All four Sikh ministers have recently visited India, and New Delhi would have liked it if Trudeau didn’t bring them along again. But for Trudeau, this trip is all about the Sikh vote in Canada."

"Canada’s position is that it cannot curtail the right to freedom of speech and expression of its Sikh citizens, but New Delhi wants Trudeau to publicly distance himself from Sikh separatists. "

> It was reported that they were being attacked and beaten in India.

The videos and news reports I saw show protestors being violent. They were using tractors to attempt to run over cops, beating cops with batons, walking around with swords etc. Some examples:

Cops jump off wall to escape protestors at Red Fort: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1qFKUtfvMc

Protestors using tractors against cops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7so5TwIMyM

Protestor attacking cop with sword: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEzMEzzb-94&t=53s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9feGjEr95nM

If anyone has any videos of the protestors being attacked which would prompt leaders of other nations to condemn, please share. I am from South India, and police using batons/water canons/tear gas is a standard practice even for small protests.

I agree on the Indians in Canada donating part. But Canadian PM should have stayed away from making comments supporting the protest.

https://thewire.in/rights/justin-trudeau-farmers-protest-ind...

Especially since some of these protestors are rumored to have backing of Khalistani separatists who have blown up an Air India flight in the past killing 329 people.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/khalistan-terror-group...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182

As an Indian, this double standard was the most amusing thing for me in all these. When farmers in India protested, Canadian PM himself supported them (probably because he wanted the Sikh community votes?).

Indian government only used police officers with batons and were sometimes chased away by the protesters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1qFKUtfvMc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7so5TwIMyM

Then yesterday I saw videos of heavily armed RCMP officers deployed to remove some of the blockades!

This happened last week.

> A collision between two India-bound Emirates planes was averted at Dubai airport on Sunday. Reports said that the Hyderabad-bound plane was accelerating for take-off from runway 30R when the crew saw another aircraft coming in the same direction at high speed. Take-off was immediately instructed to be aborted by the ATC. The aircraft slowed down safely and cleared the runway via taxiway N4.

https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2022/jan/14/dubai-hu...

> Reluctance in gaining even a basic level of mastery in language skills goes to show you don't respect / value other people's time.

I am not sure how using 'comprises' instead of 'is comprised of' can be considered as reluctance in gaining a basic level of English.

> You want your readers to put in the extra effort required to make sense out of your half-baked messages.

How is the message half-baked just because one word in that whole paragraph was wrong?

> Asking people to use coherent English on an English language forum is a reasonable expectation. I wasn't making a value judgement on the thread OP. I hope this is clear (this is why reading comprehension is important too).

I perfectly understood what 'blocked_again' said despite English not being my first language. I am pretty sure normal humans can process these sentences without any problems. Now if we are talking about 'reading comprehension' for machines, it may be a different issue.

I ran your comment in Word's grammar checker. It suggested a couple of changes.

1. Change 'required' to 'needed' in "required to make sense".

Reason: Clarity. A simpler word would be clearer for your reader.

2. Change 'master' to 'proficiency' in "mastery in language skills".

Reason: Inclusiveness. A gender-neutral term here would be more inclusive.

3. Change 'wasn't' to 'was not' in "I wasn't making a".

Reason: Formality. In formal writing, try spelling out the word.

I also didn't understand how they jumped to 'you lack basic understanding of English' just because you used a word differently. The only possibility I can guess for them picking on you like this is because you tried to question the hateful misinformation being posted here. They couldn't counter you on your actual content, so instead tried to pick on any other fault they could. Or they are trying to discourage people like you from questioning their narrative, and want to make sure that you have a negative experience on way or the other.

I think many users from Reddit's /r/india are here. I recognized one user name. After turning /r/india to pretty much anti India, they are doing the same here. And that means I need to leave HN too to stay away from the negativity, just like I had to do with /r/India.

Why though? In India, we somehow have this obsession about English. Some Indians think speaking English make them a better person than a regular Indian. Indian speaking in a western accent is considered by some as superior than an Indian accent one. Indians make fun of each other for their accents, their lack of English knowledge etc. Why it has to be that way? Its just a language, that too a foreign one.

Regarding the grandparent comment, they are definitely not poor. They have a lot of money.

One of the comments below linked to a couple of videos, one of which is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DWWeOt4jWM

In this, Burka Dutt is interviewing a local pandit. He says he is not sure if these are all covid deaths. He gives 2 reasons for the increase in number of bodies:

1. fear of covid

2. increase in cremation costs due to increase in covid deaths.

So, those bodies are not necessarily all due to covid deaths.

The video shows a lot of bodies cremated on the river bank. Once the water level rises during rain, the pandit says they will all float into the river.

Also learned that some inter the bodies of infants and unmarried women directly into the river. This may explain the 2015 incident where they found more than 100 bodies, mostly of unmarried girls and children.

I am not disputing that people were interring the bodies because they cannot afford cremation. But is that proof that all of them died of covid? In the last video you linked (Burka Dutt one), the pandit gives 2 reasons for more bodies on the river bed: 1. fear of covid 2. cremation charges went up due to covid, which in turn caused people to inter the bodies of non-covid deaths as well.

My point of replying to the original comment which used dead bodies in India's river as a sign of under counting was to question the idea of comparing the current situation to Spanish flu (which killed upto 17-18 million in India). What happened in UP/Bihar (news says up to 2000 bodies were found) is an isolated incident, specific to those states. Can that be used as an indication that the remaining 26 states are hiding, since these 2 are one of the most poorest states in India? I should be hearing news about discarded bodies from other states also right?

> Government contractors pressed into removing commemorative burial markers less they be counted by drones

Since you posted local YouTube channels, do you know how they handled the new dead bodies after the news about this incident broke out?

Just found out that there was a similar incident back in 2015 where they found more than 100 dead bodies in Ganges in the same region. It was also reported by BBC. Now I am wondering if BBC conveniently forgot that and went far back to 1918, just so that they can compare India's current situation to Spanish flu?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-30808745

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unnao_dead_bodies_row